Food Waste Intelligence

Three United States federal agencies have released the National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics. In line with the recently released U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wasted Food Scale, the strategy prioritizes food waste prevention–stopping food waste from being created to begin with–which is the solution Leanpath provides to the foodservice industry.

This is the first interagency national strategy that lays out a path for the United States to meet its national goal to halve food loss and waste by 2030.To help advance progress toward this goal, the Biden-Harris Administration has invested more than $200 million to reduce food loss and waste.

This week, Leanpath is excited to be in Baltimore alongside many of our food waste reduction-focused colleagues from around the world at the 2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit.

As we have been preparing for the multitude of sessions at this year’s event, we’ve also been reflecting on the state and pace of food waste reduction efforts in the U.S. and in countries across the globe.

 Leanpath is expanding its integration of generative AI into its intelligent food waste prevention platform to drive faster, more impactful kitchen efficiency.

This new generative AI integration analyzes a kitchen’s food waste data and recommends specific actions to engage kitchen teams and prevent that waste from reoccurring.

Leanpath, the global leader in food waste prevention in foodservice, builds on its integration capability with menu management systems, announcing a partnership with Galley Solutions and its culinary operating system.

Leanpath’s intelligent food waste prevention platform is a complete solution that allows foodservice kitchens to understand what they are wasting and why it’s being wasted. Leanpath’s analytics, reporting, and automated prevention tools empower kitchens to stop that waste from reoccurring.

The world is wasting 1.05 billion tons of food a year, amounting to 132 kilograms per capita and almost one-fifth of all food available to consumers. The foodservice industry is responsible for 28 percent of this waste.

Those were some of the findings of the UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report 2024, which calculated food waste for the most recent year data is available, 2022.